Each institution is associated with other institutions by various characteristics: geography, athletic conference, religious affiliation, programming, mission, etc.

A list of groups appears below; select a tab to view each group membership and information.

IPEDS Groups

These three groups, common across institutions, are directly informed by IPEDS data:

• AUTO: Created by IPEDS in 2023-24 based on an internal “automatic” grouping process involving Level, Control, Carnegie classification, and other variables.
• CUSTOM: The group of comparison institutions submitted to IPEDS by Denver Seminary in 2023-24.
• REVERSE: The group of institutions that included Denver Seminary in their 2023-24 IPEDS custom group.

Affiliation Groups

Additional comparison groups determined by known affiliations of Denver Seminary appear below:

• DENVER-19: Group of institutions generated by filtering all Special Topics: Theological Studies insitutions by Expenses from $7,885,000 to $31,540,000, Total FTE from 260 to 1,050, and Grad FTE > 0. Then, adding unique institutions reported as peers by Denver Seminary to IPEDS.
• THEOLOGICAL: Institutions with the updated (2025) Carnegie Classification ‘Special Focus: Theological Studies’.